Using indexed sequence diagrams to recover the behaviour of AJAX applications

Proceedings - 13th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution, WSE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-10

  McIntosh, Shane ^a   Adams, Bram ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Zou, Ying ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION; CODE REUSE; CROSSCUTTING CONCERN; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; INHERENT COMPLEXITY; NETWORK CONNECTION; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; RUNTIMES; SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS; WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS; WEB APPLICATION;

COMMUNICATION; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE; SYSTEM THEORY;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 83455201842     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2011.6081813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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